jmoore, Try a small screw with a buttplate on that top screw hole in your stock, see if it is tight or loose ?
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jmoore, Try a small screw with a buttplate on that top screw hole in your stock, see if it is tight or loose ?
Update: borrowed a screw from a complete Springfield M1 rifle that was in the vicinity.
Nice tight fit:
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...tuff0311-1.jpg
It is difficult to understand why the recess around the screw was drilled, some support is also lost around the screw too. The flange on the top screw hole of the buttplate will not extend that deep into the stock to require a recess. Some stocks could have been unintentionally drilled this way (I thought it was unique only to the M14) too. Photo shows an early no-trap Winchester stock that has an extra milling cut in the trigger guard recess which was unintentional.
Do you suppose a wandering wood shaper bit did the extra cut? Bad Monday or hasty Friday?